Margarita Simonyan engagement report
@M_Simonyan - 556K followers on X
Measured over 49 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 27, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 421 interactions against 556K followers, an engagement rate of 0.076%. Measured over 49 original posts, its engagement rate beats 66% of 3,829 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 15K times each, and 2.78% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.72% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 49 posts sampled, 94% carry an image or video and 8% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.1K interactions, about 9.6x its own typical post.
Measured over 49 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 27, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Margarita Simonyan's engagement rate beats 66% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,829 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 8 of 10)). A percentile is spread evenly by construction, so 50 really is the middle of that group and 90 really is its top tenth.
On engagement per impression rather than per follower it beats 79% of the same group. When those two numbers disagree, the gap is about how far its posts travel rather than how people react to them.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.076%, Margarita Simonyan sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,214 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.081%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.081% |
| 75th percentile | 0.436% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.2% |
This ruler is the whole measured catalog, not a size-matched group: it shows where the raw rate falls across every account we can measure, all of which are large. For a like-for-like comparison, read the size-band percentile above instead. See how the bands are built
Posting timing
This account posts most often around 11:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day of the week. The bars below are the catalog-wide pattern, with this account's own busiest slot marked. They do not show how this account performs at each hour: we keep one aggregate per account, not one per hour, so that measurement does not exist in our data.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | -1% | 51K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 51K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 54K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 49K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 53K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 71K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 73K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 80K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 88K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 96K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 99K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 103K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 100K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 92K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 86K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 81K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 75K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 67K |
| 22:00 UTC | -1% | 58K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 234K |
| Monday | 0% | 294K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 288K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 253K |
| Thursday | -2% | 247K |
| Friday | -3% | 256K |
| Saturday | +3% | 230K |
Best tweets
- Aug 18, 20269.6x their median
Наши девочки уже дома – выиграли ЧЕ и взяли больше всех медалей. А Мельникова теперь семикратная. Молодцы! https://t.co/t5TPMsWSpD
- Aug 22, 20269.3x their median
Russian FM Sergey Lavrov hits the nail on the head, as usual: "Most of our citizens understand what we are fighting for. And it seems that we would like — as some say — for everything to go back to the way it was as soon as possible, so as not to be afraid of drones, but to leave the Nazi regime in power. This is precisely what the West is now seeking and what Zelensky is begging for, saying: let's have a truce, there's no need for any political agreements, and then we will discuss what comes next. What would this mean? It would mean that we would agree to a ceasefire while leaving in place the Nazi regime on the other side of the line of contact — the only regime in the world that has legally banned an entire language, and an official UN language at that, in education, in the media, in culture, everywhere; a regime that has banned the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church. These are the metastases of Nazism that have been growing in Europe in recent years and have reached Ukraine. Through a ceasefire, we would strengthen these Nazi metastases and allow them to develop further. This would be a betrayal of what our grandfathers and great-grandfathers did when they defeated Nazism — forever, as we thought at the time. But it turned out to be hard to kill."
- Aug 19, 20268.8x their median
YouTube сегодня удалил канал моего близкого друга, любимого режиссера, прекрасного музыканта и по совместительству ведущего программы на 'Sputnik Сербия' — Эмира Кустурицы. Добро пожаловать в клуб, мэтр! У нас тут тепло, светло и мухи не кусают. https://t.co/eIik8QHX3M
- Aug 25, 20264.7x their median
Канцлер ФРГ хочет 'принудить' Россию к мирным переговорам. Из Берлина нас уже пытались принуждать. Закончилось в Берлине. https://t.co/I8j2YxsNvL
- Aug 18, 20264.2x their median
Откопали в Голландии нацистского упыря Коновальца и привезли в Киев. Водили детей гроб целовать, азовцы с факелами ходили. Говорят, перезахоронят потом в украинском пантеоне, как построят. Не построят. https://t.co/zIRxeKJkXH
- Aug 19, 20263.5x their median
Обмен! Сегодня из плена вернулись 103 российских бойца, среди них 31 раненый. Едут домой, лечиться. Держитесь, родненькие. https://t.co/1C2uVVvPzT
- Aug 26, 20263.5x their median
The Guardian (that many consider Britain’s ‘paper of record’) just admitted to straight up making up a story a decade ago. Are we surprised? Nope. How many more fakes like this have they and other self-righteous western establishment media published? Heavens only know. https://t.co/41PAM0fgzP
- Aug 20, 20262.8x their median
Russia is likely the only country in the world that possesses expertise across the entire nuclear energy supply chain, all while maintaining the highest safety standards – Putin. “It is precisely these competitive advantages that allow us to hold leadership positions in the market for constructing nuclear power plants abroad,” Russian president said, noting that Rosatom’s export portfolio currently includes 28 energy blocks in various countries around the world.
- Aug 19, 20262.7x their median
Такер Карлсон дал интервью RT и выложил его с логотипом у себя в канале. Что ему за это будет, мы не знаем, но нам приятно. https://t.co/bZ7iSKwNez
- Aug 19, 20262.7x their median
66‑летний фермер из Волгоградской области Николай Мухин получил штраф в 40 тыс. рублей за попытку сбить хозлятский БПЛА из охотничьего ружья. Уважаемые ответственные товарищи, разберитесь, пожалуйста. Нет у нас правил, что делать в таких ситуациях. Значит, нужно разработать. Давайте исправляться. А я пока оплачу за фермера этот штраф.
Ranked by total interactions across everything we have tracked for this account, which is a longer history than the 30-day window the rates above use. The multiple compares each post to this account's own median.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 421 interactions against 556K followers, an engagement rate of 0.076%. Measured over 49 original posts, its engagement rate beats 66% of 3,829 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 15K times each, and 2.78% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.72% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 49 posts sampled, 94% carry an image or video and 8% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.1K interactions, about 9.6x its own typical post.
- What is Margarita Simonyan's engagement rate on X?
- Margarita Simonyan (@M_Simonyan) has an engagement rate of 0.076%, based on the median interactions across 49 original posts from the last 30 days against 555,645 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.076%, Margarita Simonyan sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,214 accounts in this comparison. Those comparison accounts are all large ones, because our scanning cadence is weighted towards big accounts, so this is a ranking among peers of similar scale rather than a ranking across X.
- Does @M_Simonyan have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 66% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,829 accounts), which puts it in the middle of its size range group. Ranking inside a size band matters because engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly re-measure the follower count. It is a starting point for a look at follower quality, not a verdict on it.
- When does @M_Simonyan post?
- Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.93 posts per day across the measured window.